Improved washing-machine



tl'ntcd gendre IRA A. NEWHALL, or ceooKED CREEK, PNN'SYLVANIA.

Letters .Patent No. 90,462, dated May 25, 1869.

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thelame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ire@` A. N EWHALL, of Crooked Creek, in the countyof V'Iioga, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and improvedWashing- Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make aud use the same, reference being had totheaccompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which-Figure l is aivertical longitudinal section of my improved machine,taken through the'line :v-x, iig.- 2.

Figure 2 is a detail cross-section of the same, part being broken awayto show the construction.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish a simple', convenient, andeective washing-machine, doing. its work quickly and well, and -withoutinjuring the articles being washed; and

It consists in-the construction and combination of the various parts ofthe machine, as hereinafter more fully described. K

A represents the box or tub of the machine, which is4 made rectangularin its general form, and the bottom of which is made concave orsemi-cylindrical in form, as shown in fig. l.

B are two rubber frames, which are placed, one in each end of the boxA', and the end-bars of which are pivoted, below their middle points, tothe sides of the tub A. i

The rubber boards B are formed by pivoting the ends of a system Iofrollers, b, to the end-bars b2, as shown in g. l.

The movements of the roller-frame B are limited by the stops or stripsO, attached to the sides of the box A, near its ends, in such positionsthat the endbars b2 of the roller-frames B, when in a vertical position,may rest against them.

The lower ends of the stops G are bevelled o', as shown in iig. 1, sothat the roller-frames may take a position parallel with the swingingroller-frame D, when said roller-frame is swung against them.

The roller-frame D is formed by pivoting two rows of rollers cl to theside-bars cl3 of said frame.

d* is the pivoting-rod, which passes through the side-bars di', and theends of which work in notches in the upper edges of the sides of the boxA, as shown in iig. 2.

The side-bars dz are extended upward, and their upper. ends areconnected by a cross-bar, da, which serves as a handle for operating themachine.

The lower side of the lower cross-barof the swinging rubber frame D, isrounded oii to correspond with the curve of the bottom of the box A, sothat the clothes may not get between the said cross-bar and the bottom,and be worn or injured.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Y Thecombination of the roller-frames B, pivoted, below their centres, to theside of the box A, the endstrip's O having their lowerends bevelled, andthe yframe D, provided with two rows of rollers d, all arranged audoperating as described, for the purpose specified. A

Witnesses:

' WM. L. Reese,

A. J. DURYEA.

IRA A. NEWHALL.

